Every day in December through Christmas, we’re sharing a cookie recipe. Forget the 12 Days of Christmas—these are the 25 Days ofCookies.

Can you believe it? We’re in the final 5 days of our cookie marathon. We’d love to say, “Oh, we saved the best for last,” or, “You won’t believe the cookies we’ve got in store for you now!” But the fact is, we’ve been eating cookies for nearly a month straight. We’re no longer capable of planning. If you could read a printout of our mental state, it would look something like this: “Cookiecookiechocolatesugarpepperminteggsflourbuttercookiesugarlinzercookiecookiesugar.”

So, uh, what can we say about these tea cake sandwich cookies? The sooner we finish talking about them, the sooner we get to eat them, so let’s get this over with: they’re neat because, well, all four words in their title are foods. Tea. Cake. Sandwich. Cookies. You could eat any one of those things on its own, and it would be fine. Or you can make these extremely attractive cookies—which do not, incidentally, contain tea, cake, or sandwiches—and experience a new wealth of flavor and beauty. With their variety of colors and designs, they’re as fun to look at as they are to eat. Wait, no, that’s not true. They’re better to eat. Oh, God, here it comes . . . cookiecookiecookiechocolatesugarpeppermintcookie . . .